Microsoft recently announced about plans to layoff 5000 of their employees in next 18 months and last week 1400 were let go. U.S. Senator had requested Microsoft to retain U.S. workers and lay off workers in H1B visa. Read what Computer World article is saying
Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting a “significant number” of foreign workers as part of the layoff of 1,400 employees last week, a number that is due to reach 5,000 over the next 18 months.
The company isn’t detailing how many of the the workers losing their jobs are in the U.S. on a visa, however.
Microsoft has been urged by Sen. Charles Grassley’s (R-Iowa), a leading critic of the H-1B program, to protect the jobs of U.S. workers over foreign workers. In a letter last week to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Grassley demanded that U.S. workers get priority in keeping their jobs.
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If they cut non-US citizens that would be discrimination, and MSFT would own billions for wrongful termination